# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/durward-knowles
# Generated: 2026-08-13T11:18:21.308Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/durward-knowles"
name: "Durward Knowles"
slug: "durward-knowles"
description: "Sir Durward Randolph Knowles was a sailor and Olympic champion from The Bahamas. He won the gold medal in the Star class at the 1964 Summer Olympics in Tokyo, together with Cecil Cooke. He won the bronze medal in the same class at the 1956 Summer Olympics in Melbourne. He had previously competed for the United Kingdom in the 1948 Olympics, finishing in 4th place in the Star class together with Sloane Elmo Farrington. Representing the Bahamas, Knowles also won gold in the 1959 Pan American Games star class. He is one of only five athletes who have competed in the Olympics over a span of 40 years, along with fencer Ivan Joseph Martin Osiier, sailor Magnus Konow, showjumper Ian Millar, and sailor Paul Elvstrøm."
tagline: "British-Bahamian sailor"
gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "GB"
birthDate: "1917-11-02"
deathDate: "2018-02-24"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
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  profileCompleteness:  35
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump